What makes Cape Town one of the most beautiful places on Earth is its range of jagged-mountains which thrusts into the southern Atlantic’s splendid desolation. The majestic might of the Table Mountain is encircled and covered by sheltered bays, pristine beaches and secluded-coves. It’s also a world heritage site and showcases about 8,500 different flower species.
While lying between the looming-crags of the mountains and the deep-blue sweep of the Table Bay, Cape Town’s beauty never stops feeding the imagination of its observer. The city is inarguably the Mother City of South Africa and Western Cape Province’s cosmopolitan hub. If you haven’t been there yet, the beauty of Cape Town won’t leave you with any excuse so book an advance affordable cheap flight to Cape Town with us to get the journey started that you’ll always remember.
If you want to get the most out of your journey, you can travel to the Cape of Good Hope Nature Reserve along any of the two coastal-drives with each one of them being very different. The famous Chapman’s Peak route traverses the Sea-Point’s cosmopolitan seaboard and Clifton’s famed-beaches natural beauty. The famed Argus bicycle-race also takes place on this spectacular road. The False Bay road heads towards the north while hugging the mountains and snaking past the Fish Hoek which is a popular family beach. You’ll also get to see the fishing village instilled with color and character, Kalk Bay and Muizenberg which in known for the excellent surfing and safe swimming it offers.
If you are a history enthusiast, you definitely won’t want to miss the Robben Island which is among South Africa’s most significant historical-sites. To get there you can take a short boat-ride from the Waterfront. The Island was initially used by the Dutch-East-India Company as a victualling station and then converted to an asylum and a leper-colony. Later on in 1960 the Island came under Army & Navy and became a prison which held Nelson Mandela for more than 20 years. If you like museums and art-galleries, you can find the Castle of Good hope located in the city-centre.
Cape Town is famous for its rich variety of flowers so that’s not something you are going to miss while you are there. You can choose from myriad walks or climbing to get to the hills up the Table Mountain also known as Lion’s head through many places including Silvermine, Kirstenbosch, Newlands Forest, Nature Reserves of Tygerberg, Helderberg or Cape of Good Hope.
You can visit Cape Town at any time of the year with October till March being its warmest and most popular months. If you want to see the beauty of Cape Town’s floral kingdom at its peak, you will definitely consider visiting the city during the spring months from August till September.
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